Relapsing fever spirochete in seabird tick, Japan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1528-1530

  Takano, Ai ^a,b   Muto, Maki ^a   Sakata, Akiko ^a   Ogasawara, Yumiko ^a   Ando, Shuji ^a   Hanaoka, Nozomu ^a   Tsurumi, Miyako ^c   Sato, Fumio ^c   Nakamura, Noboru ^c   Fujita, Hiromi ^d   Watanabe, Haruo ^a,b   Kawabata, Hiroki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMASHINA INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Japan)

^d National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BORRELIA INFECTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEABIRD; SPIROCHETE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BORRELIA; FEMALE; JAPAN; MALE; RELAPSING FEVER; SPIROCHAETALES; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 70249144018     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1509.090459     Document Type: Letter

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